The Racialicious Guide To San Diego Comic-Con 2012, Part 2

SATURDAY11:30 a.m.: Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained As of Wednesday night there was some confusion as to whether Tarantino would be making it to this panel, but SDCC has advertised that the cast will be there, at least. Hall H.

12 p.m.: Shonen Jump Alpha The weekly anime magazine brings in editor-in-chief Yoshihisa Heishi and others to talk about new titles and trends in the manga scene. Room 7AB.

1 p.m.: CBLDF: The Fight To Defend Manga In 2010, Ryan Matheson was detained by Canadian customs and charged with importing child pornography after authorities went through the manga collection on his laptop. The charges against him were dropped after the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund took his case. Room 11AB.

1 p.m.: Northstar Sure to be one of the more interesting panel offerings from Marvel, with the character getting married in the pages of Uncanny X-Men. And this is a great occasion, no doubt. Room 25ABC.

1:30 p.m.: 30th Anniversary of Love and Rockets This 90-minute panel will give co-creators Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, along with Fantagraphic Books co-publisher Gary Groth, more time to delve into the impact and the creative process behind their long-running indie classic. Room 24ABC.

2 p.m.: Spotlight on Morrie Turner Nearly 50 years after its debut, Turner’s comic strip Wee Pals continues to be seen in more than 100 daily newspapers. Here Turner will share his story alongside host Keith Knight. Room 4.

5 p.m.: Comics of the African Diaspora Focusing on “popular but obscure comic-book characters and creators,” the line-up here is interesting. Actress Robin Givens will moderate a panel consisting of Underworld co-creator Kevin Grevioux, Precious director Lee Daniels, Black Comix creator and co-author John Jennings, and Jennings’ collaborator Damian Duffy, who was his co-curator for Other Heroes: African American Comics Creators, Characters, and Archetypes, which began as an art exhibit at Jackson State University. Room 4.

5:30 p.m.: Gays in Comics The longest-running panel in American comics celebrates its 25th anniversary on the heels of the emergence of characters like Northstar, Batwoman and Kevin Keller, with a celebratory mixer hosted by Prism Comics after the panel. Room 6A.

6 p.m.: Best and Worst Manga of 2012 Critics from Mangablog, Comics212 and Anime News Network, among other outlets, offer up their picks for what you should be buying this year, as well as what’s described as “the year’s most despicable wastes of their reading time.” Room 23ABC.

1 p.m.: Manga Tutorials for Kids Artists and editors from eigoMANGA will be on hand to offer youngsters tips on putting together their own manga stories. Room 11AB.

2:30 p.m.: The Culture of Comic-Con With this convention becoming either more eclectic or more unhinged, depending on who you ask, there couldn’t be a better time for a discussion of an ethnographic field study of “the intersection of fan practice at the nexus of cultural marketing and fan culture.” Room 26AB.

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